LSU board delays vote on hospital proposal

9:19 PM,
Mar. 18, 2013

E.A. Conway Hospital in Monroe.

Written by

Mike Hasten

BATON ROUGE - The LSU Board of Supervisors Monday delayed until March 27 discussion of a proposal for the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana to take over the management and operation of LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and E.A. Conway Medical Center in Monroe.

The foundation also would operate clinics associated with the hospitals.

The memorandum of understanding for the deal was on the LSU board's agenda but Supervisor Ann Duplessis of New Orleans, vice chairwoman of the Health Care and Medical Education Committee, said more time is needed to work out details. ...